EGYPT INQUIRY
LONDON, July 31. (Received August 1, at 1 p.m.)
At, tho Egypt inquiry Alice Byrne, stewardess, said ; “1 saw a boatload of natives leaving the ship. They looked scared. I suppose they did not think it their duty to save tho women.” Mabel Evans, stewardess, described tho natives rushing about the decks in all directions after tho collision. They wera panic-stricken. She heard shots. Quartermaster Hasher said that he lowered a boat and tried to row towards tho well-deck in order to take oft the passengers, but the natives would not row. They kept backing away. Quartermaster Harvey said ha found his boat full of natives. Ho ordered them out; but they were terrified, ami he could not move them.
Quartermaster Lissende-r said that he saw 110 active interference by the natives with the passengers.—A. and N.Z, Gable.
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Evening Star, Issue 18035, 1 August 1922, Page 6
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